WHA Global Nutrition Targets 2025: Wasting Policy Brief

Published By: WHO on eSS | Published Date: January, 01 , 2014

In 2012, the World Health Assembly Resolution 65.6 endorsed a Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition, which specified six global nutrition targets for 2025 (2). This policy brief covers the sixth target: to reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5%. The purpose of this policy brief is to increase attention to, investment in, and action for a set of cost effective interventions and policies that can help Member States and their partners to reduce and maintain the rate of childhood wasting.

Author(s): World Health Organisation (WHO) | Posted on: Sep 07, 2016 | Views() | Download (858)


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